The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-06-23
MYSTERY OF RED HAIR.
THE CONCLUSIVE DEMONSTRATION
MADE BY AN ARTIST.

| Sunset Headed Maiden Is Never Stupid.
| Glowing Locks on the stage--In Lit
! erature
cred HART There's no such thingp'
| exclaimed young and well known artist
who has passed many days in sunny
| Italy the other afternoon as he prom
| enaded UP Fifth avenue with an equally
| well known swell. They had just come
| from lunching at Delmonico's at the
| swell's expense, and the latter had just
| remarked, after the manner of his kind:
| ssBy Jove, just look at that wed headed
| girl crowssing oyah heah; She gives me
sunstroke, dontcher know"
| 'sWhy don't people call colors by their
| proper names?'' went on the eXasperated
artist as they passed the Brunswick.
s'But, my deah fellah. dontcher know
| what Navy Anderson says, "A wose by
any other name would smell as sweet,
| and if wed hair isn't wed, why, it looks
| wed all the same,'' and as this logic
| seemed irrefutable there was silence until
| the two men disappeared within the por-
| tails of the Fnickerbocker club.
The reporter, who had overheard this
| conversation, determined to unsolve the
mystery of red hair. and at dusk sought
| the artist in his studio to find out what
color red hair was. The artist was look
| ing picturesque and kind, and was pleased
| to mix on his palette three different
| shades of red, three of yellow and three
| of brown.
TWO OR THREE COLORS MIXED.
s'Now,,' said he, with the air of the col
| lege professor who pauses to catch the
class with some startling question, point
me out the color that is like red haiT."
The reporter couldn't do it. He lowered
about the orange color as the small boy
around the circus tent, but could not
touch it. He almost singled out one of
the sickly looking browns but the reds he
skipped entirely.
''Give it up"
Thought you wou1d,'' said the artist,
condescendingly. "What people call red
hair is mixture of two or three colors,
according to the shade of red. Now, look
| here. If I dab my finger in this yellow
| and mix it with that red, what do 1 get?''
| why, exactly the color of hair the girl
| had today
! ct told you so,'' said the artist, ''and
| don't let any one ever convince you that
! there is such a thing as real red hair.
| Call it red if you choose, but dom think of
| it a. the same color as train lantern or a
coaching paraSol because you will be way
! off. Adelaide Nelson had red hair, you
know, one of the most beautiful tints, and
! Willie Winter spoke of it as the burnish-
| ed gold that foated around her royal
| head, SO if you choose to take that term
| you will be nearer the truth"
1t is said by those who ought to know,
| and no one has contradicted the state
ment, that a red haired girl is never a
stupid girl. She is always quick of speech
| aid quick of action. Red hair brings
with it quick intelligence and generally
| great sensibility. When it comes with
! blue eyes and brown brows and lashes the
owner is of sentimental turn of mind
| and usually very musical; with brown
eyes and dark lashes the red headed girl is
noted for her beauty of compleXion-gen-
| orally an ivory whitc-her love of exercise,
and is very frequently endowed with great
| dramatic ability.
| A STRONG, EMOTIONAL NATURE.
Red hair always goes with a strong, emo
tional nature, and the red haired girl
| laughs and cries at the theatre when her
black ard yellow haired sisters sit silent.
| She is a creature quick to anger, easy to
| please, a lovable darling when she likes
| you, but sharper than a two edged sword
and as bitter as early gooseberries when
she doesn't.
'sWho are our red headed girls and
! women?''
Those ON the stage are well known. Mrs.
James Brown Potter is perhaps the most
| interesting. Her hair is considered her
| greatest beauty. 1t isn't the 'sreddish''
| red hair, but it looks like bronze, touched
with a tint of golden flame here and there.
| Ii IL,
| by the way, raves over Mrs. Potter'S hair
| and wishes hers was like it.
4 Kate Claxton has what is called real
| red hair-the bricky, carroty, dark red
| tint-but it is not a bit unbecoming. 1t is
! SO soft and silken, SO plentiful and curls
in loose ringlets, and then it has been such
a salvation to her, so she says. for when
fire meets fire they run apart and she
owes her miraculous escapes from burning
| hotels to her rudy hair.
In the literary world red hair is in
tensely admired. Emerson loved it, James
/ Whitcomb Riley has written many poems
on it and in one calls it ''nut brown hair
with golden CLEAN, - and Dante Gabrielle
Rosetti's wife, who died when very young,
had hair of a yellow red, long and curling.
| He buried all his poems with her, but the
| friends who had wished for his fame had
| them removed a few years afterwards and
| found that the beautiful red hair had
| grown and twined itself all about the
| manuscript.
1 In our literary world of to-day there are
| many women with red hair.
In the social world there are many red
| headed girls and women who are both
! bellies and beauties.
Among the great army of girls who
earn their living in the large dry goods
| stores there are many with red hair which
society bellies would give a great deal of
| money to possess.
A lady artist gives a few hints as to
what colors red headed people should
I wear:
/ Those who have hair verging on brown
look well in anything. Most red headed
! people should avoid crimson; pink is be-
coming to pale golden red hair and very
fair compilations; green of all shades to all
shades of red hair; blue likewise; yellow
to be avoided except by those with auburn
| hair; black especially becoming; also law